1971 in Scotland

none January 2015 July 2026 1971 Events from the year 1971 in Scotland. Incumbents Politics of Scotland Order of precedence in Scotland Secretary of State for Scotland and Keeper of the Great Seal – Gordon Campbell Law officers Lord Advocate – Norman Wylie Solicitor General for Scotland – David Brand Judiciary Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord Justice General – Lord Clyde Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Grant Chairman of the Scottish Land Court – Lord Birsay Events 2 January – 1971 Ibrox disaster: a stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match at Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow kills 66 and leaves many more injured.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/2/newsid_2478000/2478305.stm 1971: Sixty-six die in Scottish football disaster BBC News 2008-02-02 2 January 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113132/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/2/newsid_2478000/2478305.stm 7 March 2008 live 10 March – 1971 Scottish soldiers' killings: three young off-duty Royal Highland Fusiliers are lured from a bar in Belfast and shot by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in The Troubles in Northern Ireland. 23 May – "The Unknown Bairn": The drowned body of a young boy is found washed up onshore at Tayport; he is never identified.Tayport remembers 'The Unknown Bairn' 40 years after his body was found on beach http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/tayport-remembers-the-unknown-bairn-40-years-after-his-body-was-found-on-beach-1.43690 The Courier Dundee 2011-05-23 2015-08-24 25 May – production begins at the Invergordon aluminium works. 15 June – Upper Clyde Shipbuilders enters liquidation.The Times London 16 June 1971 18 58200 Provisional liquidator is appointed for Upper Clyde Shipbuilders 2 July Royal Scots Dragoon Guards formed as the senior Scottish regiment of the British Army at Holyrood, Edinburgh, by amalgamation of the Royal Scots Greys and 3rd Carabiniers. Erskine Bridge opened over the River Clyde. 30 July – Upper Clyde Shipbuilders workers begin to take control of the shipyards in a work-in under the leadership of Jimmy Reid.The Times London 31 July 1971 1 58238 Workers seize control of shipyard on the Clyde Ian Murray c. August – Kyle of Tongue Bridge and causeway opened, replacing a ferry. 16 September – Stirling and Falkirk by-election: Labour retains the seat but the Scottish National Party takes second place with a surge of 20% in their support. 21 October – Clarkston explosion: a gas explosion in Clarkston, East Renfrewshire kills at least twenty people. 22 November – Cairngorm Plateau disaster: Five children and one adult on an expedition die of exposure in the Highlands.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/22/newsid_2549000/2549021.stm 1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy BBC News 2008-02-02 22 November 1971 https://web.archive.org/web/20080307113139/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/22/newsid_2549000/2549021.stm 7 March 2008 live 2 December – last resident families leave the island of Scarp.The Lost Islands http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/techservices/bridgescausewaysferries/lost.asp Stornoway Comhairle nan Eilean Siar 2013-08-29 2014-05-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20140227133644/http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/techservices/bridgescausewaysferries/lost.asp 27 February 2014 dead Expansion of Erskine as a planned community begins. Spey Bridge at Aviemore opened. Tom Farmer opens the first Kwik Fit car servicing centre, in Edinburgh. Births 21 January – Alan McManus, snooker player 23 March Kate Dickie, actress Gail Porter, television presenter and model 27 March – David Coulthard, racing driver 31 March – Ewan McGregor, actor 1 April – Karen Dunbar, comedian 5 April – Charles Cumming, espionage novelist 18 April – David Tennant, actor 31 July – Craig MacLean, track cyclist 19 August – Paul McGrillen, footballer (suicide 2009) 30 August – Julian Smith, Conservative politician 6 October – Brian Conaghan, young adult fiction writer 7 October – Aasmah Mir, journalist and presenter 8 October – Michelle Mone, entrepreneur 13 November – Alberto Costa, Conservative politician Deaths 16 June – John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, broadcasting executive (born 1889) 25 June – John Boyd Orr, physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1880) 28 August – Edith Hughes, architect (born 1888) 12 December Torrance Gillick, Rangers F.C. winger (born 1915) Alan Morton, Rangers outside left (born 1893) 22 December – D. Alan Stevenson, lighthouse engineer and philatelist (born 1891) The arts 26 March – BBC Scotland television begins a serialisation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, starring Vivien Heilbron. 18 November – Stewart Conn's play The Burning, concerning King James VI of Scotland, premieres. Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond's political thriller Scotch on the Rocks, concerning a terrorist group fighting for Scottish independence in the near future, is published by Collins. English composer Peter Maxwell Davies settles in Orkney, initially on Hoy. See also 1971 in Northern Ireland References Scotland Category:Years of the 20th century in Scotland Category:1970s in Scotland Scotland